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Ray Zinn is the longest serving CEO in Silicon Valley, and the founder of semiconductor company Micrel. Zinn is also the author of Tough Things First and a driving force in mentored entrepreneurship.

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Why So Many Tech Companies Are Having Difficulty Surviving After Five Years

FitBit, one of the high-flying consumer tech startups, priced their IPO at $20. Today it is trading for less than $6 and the company is losing money. GoPro, the action-camera company, went public for $24 a share, is barely...

Exporting Silicon Valley

It is time to export Silicon Valley. Several intersecting trends make this a necessity. The Silicon Valley success formula has been proven over many decades, and the rest of America can readily adopt it. Economic advancement, especially with the...

Six Steps to Surviving Three Years

The odds of your startup being around three years from now are not good. Statics show that about nine of every ten new businesses fail that quickly. Often it isn’t from a lack of hard work or even a...

Tech, disruption and policy

To disrupt is to make significant change. This is where technology reigns and why facilitating disruption should be public policy and priority. Innovation is not enough Innovation is great, and it brings to people and industry many useful advancements....

Five Plus Steps to Success

Leave it to engineers to reduce the formula for success to a mathematical equation. Ps = 1 - Pf This shorthand, from left to right, reads “the probability of success is equal to one minus the probability of failure.”...

Five Plus Steps to Success

Leave it to engineers to reduce the formula for success to a mathematical equation. Ps = 1 – Pf This shorthand, from left to right, reads “the probability of success is equal to one minus the probability of failure.”...